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Sep 6, 2012
Clariant signs partnership for cleantech exploration
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Sep 6, 2012
UK-based green energy company ITM Power is set to work with one of Germany’s top local utility companies on power-to-gas energy storage.
ITM believes the integration of renewable energies into the existing electricity and gas networks in Germany presents great challenges to energy providers.
The collaboration will investigate the potential of energy storage by the... [Read More]
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Sep 7, 2012
Fuel brand BP Biofuels has signed a three year agreement to work alongside Texas AgriLife Research (TAR) in developing feedstocks in the US Gulf coast.
The team at TAR will focus on production agronomics and plant breeding, while also concentrating on researching new varieties of energy cane, napiergrass, pearl-millet, miscane and kinggrass.
‘The goal is to develop... [Read More]
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Sep 7, 2012
US-based Patriot Bioenergy (PB) has announced plans for the construction of an ethanol plant in Whitley County, Kentucky.
PB is already growing beet feedstock in Whitley and Adair counties as a base for its ethanol production, moving away from corn which is no longer subsidised by the US government.
‘What we have been doing over the last eighteen months is looking... [Read More]
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Sep 10, 2012
Global agriculture and industrial concern Cargill is to expand its grain storage facility in Manitoba, Canada.
The expansion of the Elva grain facility, which primarily handles wheat, canola, barley and oats, will see capacity jump from 14,500 metric tonnes to 24,500. Rail car handling is also set to rise from 56 cars to 112.
‘This decision comes from Cargill’s... [Read More]
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Sep 11, 2012
Prenergy Power is considering adding wood pellets as a feedstock to its proposed biomass plant in Port Talbot, Wales.
Construction on the £400 million ($641 million) has yet to start, but it was believed only wood chips would be used to generate energy. Neath Port Talbot Council is due to give the request a response this week.
However opposition to the proposal are... [Read More]
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Sep 11, 2012
A 500kw biogas plant is set to come online at Yorkshire producer Melrose Pigs this month.
Commissioning has started on the EnviTec Biogas anaerobic digestion project, which will be fed partly with slurry from Melbourne-based Melrose’s finisher pigs.
Maize and grass silage from sister company Northern Crop Driers will also be fed into the system, which will produce... [Read More]
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Oct 8, 2015
Agraferm Technologies has received three new orders for biogas plants in England.
Near Lincoln, in Metheringham, the company is building a new gas-to-grid biomethane plant. The plant will consist of one digester and a post digester yielding 400Nm3/h of biomethane and 500kW of electricity.
The Metheringham project will be one of Agraferm's smaller plants. As the company's... [Read More]
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Aug 22, 2012
After two years of evaluation, the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) has finalised its Massachusetts Renewable Portfolio Standard Class One regulations for biomass eligibility.
The final conclusion requires all woody biomass plants to generate power at a minimum of 50% efficiency to receive one half of a renewable energy credit or 60% to receive a whole... [Read More]
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Aug 23, 2012
Global engineering and technology company Chemtex has won a partnership with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to build a new advanced biofuels plant.
Backed by a federal-private partnership and earmarked to open in 2014, the biorefinery will create 315 jobs and produce cellulosic ethanol from energy crops. The location of the site is believed to be Sampson County,... [Read More]
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Aug 23, 2012
A 2.4MW biogas plant being constructed in Pomerania, Poland has announced the next phase of its project.
The plant, being built by Weltec Power, will have a 50m³ dosing feeder and four storage tanks up and running by the summer of 2013, which will help feed substrates into four 4,438m³ stainless-steel fermenters.
Plant operator NEWD will ferment the potato waste of a... [Read More]
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Aug 23, 2012
European energy giant RWE has claimed it will be cutting 2,400 jobs across the continent amid a drop in profits registered by its UK arm nPower.
RWE nPower’s first-half profits fell by just over 9% to £251 million ($317.5 million) compared to the same time last year, this despite the company raising its 6.5 million British electricity and gas customer energy... [Read More]
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Aug 28, 2012
Algae-based green crude oil producers Sapphire Energy’s first phase of its Green Crude Farm, which it claims is the world’s first commercial demonstration algae-to-energy facility, is now operational.
The construction of this first phase began on 1 June last year and was completed on time and on budget. The facility aims to produce 1.5 million gallons... [Read More]
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Aug 28, 2012
The total amount of dry bulk handled in the Port of Rotterdam fell by 8.7% to 39.4 million tonnes in the first half of 2012.
Agribulk (grains, seeds, animal feed ingredients) throughput was down by a tenth to 4.1 million tonnes. The port puts these numbers down to an increase in the price of products on the world market and also that a few packages won from Amsterdam last... [Read More]
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Aug 28, 2012
Developer of second generation biofuels technology TMO Renewables has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the authorities of Heilongjiang, China.
The MoU will see TMO provide long-term large volume biomass feedstock supply for future biofuel production facilities from Heilongjiang State Farm, the largest state owned farming corporation in China.
The MoU is also the... [Read More]
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Indonesian gas distributor PT Pertamina Gas Negara Tbk (PGN) has signed an agreement with NeutraDC Singapore (NDSG) to provide biomethane for forthcoming data centre projects in Singapore
Once cleared, the site will be redeveloped into an Energy, Biochar and Carbon (EBAC) plant – a pyrolysis facility designed to convert plant matter into biochar, renewable electricity and heat
Swedish tanker owner Furetank has announced it will run its European fleet on renewable biogas throughout 2025, marking a major step towards fossil-free shipping
